Vandana KATARIYA

Vandana Katariya has been one of the star attackers for the Indian women’s hockey team in recent years. Vandana hogged the media headlines in 2013 after she finished as the top scorer for India at the Junior Women's World Cup in Monchengladbach, Germany and helped India to the bronze medal. She has been a key member of the team since then, competing in all major competitions, including the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Games, where India finished fourth and Vandana also became the first Indian women’s hockey player to score a hat-trick at the Olympic Games.

She was also a member of the Indian teams that won the Asian Champions Trophy in 2016, the 2017 Hockey World League Round 2 in Canada, and the 2017 Women's Asia Cup. She was also a significant part of the Indian side that won silver at the 2018 Women's Asian Champions Trophy and advanced to the quarter-finals of the 2018 Hockey Women's World Cup London. The striker was also a key member of India's Women's Asia Cup and Commonwealth Games campaign in 2022, where they won bronze. She was instrumental in helping India finish thirrd in the FIH Hockey Women's Pro League.